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I've bought books from Lorem Ipsum and hope it will stay open. But I don't see how the business plan makes any sense.

Essentially, the owners want to us to pay their back rent and say they'll be okay in the future because they'll start a Netflix-like system where folks can borrow books from their private library.

But there are three branches of the Cambridge Public Library within less than a mile* of Lorem Ipsum, all of which have a LOT more books and all of whom lend them out for free. Wouldn't we be better served by giving CPL's book fund the $29,000 that the store wants?

*(Per Google's walking maps, if you go out the store's front door and turn left, there's a CPL branch a half mile away. Turn right at the door instead of left and the CPL's main library is 0.8 miles away. Or head down Prospect Street at the Central Square branch is 0.9 miles away.)